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TonyOD

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  1. Alynbank is looking great. I get the impression that with these ship builds you can go as crazy as you feel like with the microdetail.
  2. If this Wessex is anything like as good as your previous one we’re in for a treat! 👍🏻
  3. I can't think of many aircraft with more elegant lines than a Mossie. looking great Steve.
  4. Oooh all that etch and brass looks stunning. 'Twill almost be a shame to cover it in paint!
  5. Those extra bits of detail in the cockpit make it very special. Looking great.
  6. Another cracking and esoteric addition to the build list. I wonder how many of these made and are sold compared to say an Airfix 1/72 Spitfire Mk I?
  7. It is with the heaviest of hearts that I watch @Bertie McBoatface sail into the sunset. Hoping you always have the wind in your sails. Many thanks for all your help. Tony
  8. Fantastic result! I'll turn her blue and link to your gallery pics when they're on.
  9. Tags will be fine, long as it's visible to the casual viewer (i.e. me). Just helps make a big job easier. Thanks.
  10. Brilliant addition. The ship list just gets longer and longer.
  11. Well, shipmates, I'm back on the bridge after a lovely short break in the historic city of York. York is a railway town, and a saw enough little model locomotives and bits of rolling stock at insane prices to be thankful that I'm involve in the relatively inexpensive hobby of assembling plastic model kits. anyway, here is your Day 31 roundup! Yes, astonishingly we're a month in. Things have quietened down a bit, still more WIPs being posted almost on a daily basis but I feel the next spell of activity will be a wave of RFI pics hitting the gallery. I feel that an update like this every few days will do it just at the moment, might give me a chance of getting one of builds done even! So what's been going on... a couple more over the line and in the gallery, with @Andwil's very smart Indian Sea Harrier joining the ranks, along with @flashlight's quirky little Shinkai 6500 exploration sub (I continue to marvel at the sheer variety of builds turning up for the Salty Sea Dog!) New WIPs: @MichaelSatin has put his mighty Enterprise into dry dock for a bit and is setting about a Devastator; @zegeye has come up with another Japanese naval fighter, a Kawanishi N1K1 to ad to his Zero; @SoftScience has gone all historical with his 1/100 model of La Niña, which I think was a boat connected with Columbus; @UberDaveToo has added to his raft (geddit) of builds with a P6M-2 Seamaster; and @PeterB has joined the floaty contingent with his USS Saratoga. And that I think brings us up to speed, although if I'm guilty of any omissions, please shout up that tube thing so I can hear you on the bridge! So the scores on the doors, please Isla? 165 builds 117 underway 19 finished Cheers all Tony
  12. That's a pity. I'm reluctant to declare it sunk just yet. Happy to see you pitching in with the Devastator though.
  13. Great work on that cockpit. Hard to believe that's '72.
  14. Didn't you know there's a special level of Hell reserved for those who paint Maltese Spitfires the wrong colour?! 😉
  15. That's a quirky looking AFV. Looking forward to seeing it with some slap.
  16. Thanks for that, @Dave Swindell. This reinforces my suspicion that the captions on the two photographs above are not to be trusted; BR126 can’t have received a new paint job between landing back on Wasp and taking off again (possibly) for Gibraltar shortly thereafter. One of them might be BR126, but they can’t both be. I’m also a bit puzzled by the extent of the weathering in the second picture, for what would have been a very new aircraft it looks pretty well worn (the cannon gunpowder streaking indicate that it had fired off rounds while airborne at some point), though it’s definitely a Spitfire and it appears to be definitely on Wasp. What may be the very bottom of a “BR” or “BP” serial number is just about visible under the starboard wing, but that would include any of the Spits on board Wasp for Bowery, or for that matter Calendar – same carrier, different op. Just to add to the fun, this photo shows Jerry Smith purportedly talking to F/O Robert (“Bob”?) Sim after landing back on Wasp. Note that he is wearing a light coloured helmet with darker flying overall, which the pilot isn’t in the first picture above. It’s not impossible that Smith could have changed his kit within such a short period of time, but I feel it unlikely. And to add to the fun even further, this shot of the wrecked BR126 with its GR*E codes (s/n isn't super clear in this one, but it's definitely the same airframe as the one above) looks to me like it had a light-coloured Vokes filter and a dark spinner, whereas the artwork in PL’s Colour Conundrums suggests both were painted same Dark Mediterranean Blue as the fuselage and upper surfaces. If I’m seeing it right, unless BR126 was wholly or partially repainted yet again on arrival in Malta (again, not impossible) that discounts the possibility of either of the two Spitfires pictures on Wasp’s deck above being that airframe – light coloured spinner on one, dark Vokes filter on the other. The long and the short of it is I don’t really know what to think. I wonder what Mr Lucas used as his reference?
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